Quotes Tagged With :mathematician

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it....

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions....

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great,....

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians....

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing....

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having....

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk....

I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was....

People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring....